It is not always easy to know when to send your child to school, and when to leave your child home. These Guidelines are based on public health science. If you have any questions about them, please contact the school health office at 619-605-2500 x3.
Please keep the office at your child's school informed of your current contact numbers. It is very important to be able to reach you when your child is sick at school and needs to go home or when your child needs medical attention.
Guidelines for Keeping Ill Students at Home
In order to provide a healthy school environment for all students and staff, the following guidelines have been prepared to assist you in decisions relating to your student's health and school attendance. These are general guidelines. School nurses may use clinical judgment to decide whether or not to exclude a student. Public health department may enforce stricter “stay-at-home” policies during outbreaks.
❖ If your student is not feeling well and you are uncertain about sending them to school on any given day, it is best to keep your student home and observe them for worsening symptoms.
Please do not send a student to school with the following symptoms to school:
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If difficulty breathing, looks/acts very ill or cannot participate.
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If they drool or place toys in their mouths when they have cold sores.
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Cough / Shortness of Breath / Difficulty Breathing
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If there is labored breathing (heaving of chest muscles with each breath), fast breathing at rest, blue color to skin, or wheezing (if never previously evaluated and treated). Student may come to school if symptoms are part of a diagnosed, underlying non-infectious condition.
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If stool cannot be contained in diaper or child cannot make it to toilet in time, or if stool is black, or has blood or mucus. May return to school once diarrhea can be contained, even if not completely resolved. If blood or mucus in stool or on antibiotic, get doctor clearance first.
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If there is behavior change or cannot participate.
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If infection is associated with significant eye drainage or watering.
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If ttemperature is at, or above, 100.4°F (38°C).Student may return to school when they have been fever-free (<100.4°F) without fever-reducing medications overnight. If you do not have a thermometer, please do not send your studenti if they have chills.
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If severe headache with vomiting or stiff neck. Please contact your child’s primary care physician for further evaluation.
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Stay at home if there’s fever or recently exposed to measles or chicken pox. If so, student must have rash diagnosed by a health professional. If diagnosed with impetigo, scabies, or ringworm, then return to school when skin sores are either all dried up or can be covered by clothing or bandage OR if antibiotic treatment was started the previous day.
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If they cannot swallow, have excessive drooling, difficulty breathing, fever or behavior change.
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If severe pain causing doubling over, crying, screaming, abdominal injury, diarrhea, vomiting, looks and acts ill.
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If they have vomited two or more times within the past 24 hours. Return when vomiting ended overnight and child can hold down food. Inform the school if student vomited before school.
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Antibiotics
Students who take antibiotics for impetigo, strep throat, and several other bacterial infections should be on them for a 12 hours (5 days for Pertussis/Whooping Cough) before going back to school. If you are not sure, ask your school nurse or your child’s primary care provider.
If at any time you are unsure if your child's illness is contagious, you may want to call your child's primary care provider. If you have further questions, please contact the school at (619) 605-2500. Thank you for your continued support of the families in our school community.
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